Re: [NSW]Getting rid of guards

[Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

Can not answer for NSW Cityrail, except to say, guards
were eliminated from most other rail systems, in some
cases here in Australia, many years ago.!

Then again thousands of other rail employees were
"allowed to go" as well.!

Sign of the times I guess.

....Tell



>Marvin The Martian <"choochoo"@(nospam)spin.net.au> wrote:

> It seems to me that most people in this group hate guards well guards
> will be here for a wjile yet, if they could have got rid of guards they
> will have by now in NSW. They have trialled cameras, mirrors etc but
> with the amount of passengers and curved platforms it is not possible,
> not to mention some passengers who are brain dead. Another reason is
> they don't trust drivers by themselves, if they did they would not be
> trailling dataloggers for all Cityrail trains, they record everything
> the drriver does while he is on the train. Complain all you like but
> guards are here and will be for a while yet. There has been rumours of
> the guards demise for at least 20 years now and we are still here.